Today is the publication day for the UK edition of Goodbye Eastern Europe. I'm enormously proud to be published by @OneworldNews, and truly grateful for all the hard work they put into turning a rough manuscript into a gorgeous physical object.

I’ve got a new piece in The Economist today - a profile of Robert Zubrin, “the man who inspired Elon Musk to shoot for Mars.” Includes Martian urbanism, future sports, and the shifting fortunes of betting on an interplanetary future. economist.com/interactive/18…

I’ve got a new piece up in @chronicle, a review of a very fun new history of the university. Read it here: chronicle.com/article/how-th…

I’m back in the long read today, with a piece about the wonderful and period of the deep ocean. Give it a read here: theguardian.com/news/2026/ju…

Thanks so much Bogna! I’m excited to bring this project to Vienna this winter. Very curious to read more about forest theory and secrecy - I’m fascinated by all the permutations of ketman.

Tirana friends! Join me tomorrow at Vila 31, where I will be in conversation with the great Ukrainian artist Stanislava Pinchuk about vampirism, communist legacies and much more.

Extremely proud to say I have translations of five poems by my favorite living Polish poet - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki - included in this wonderful new issue of Turkoslavia.

For @ChronicleReview, I wrote about the ongoing replication crisis in psychology, and a new book that tries to make sense of it: chronicle.com/article/how-a-…

Had a great time talking to a fellow Jakub from Radio Prague about all things Eastern European on the occasion of the publication of the Czech edition of GEE.

So exciting to see Goodbye Eastern Europe published in Czech - especially since @hostbrno did such a wonderful job with the illustrations and graphic design.

For @ChronicleReview, I reviewed How the New World Became Old, Caroline Winterer's fascinating new book on 19th Century America's discovery of deep time: chronicle.com/article/scratc…

I don’t know why or how, but the kindle edition of Goodbye, Eastern Europe is now just $2 (and 99p in the UK) - less than a cup of coffee!

For @TheTLS, I reviewed the biography of a fascinating figure from the last days of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Delighted to see my piece on teeth from The Point republished as a Guardian long read today. Thank you @davidedgarwolf and @rachelcwiseman !

I've got an essay in the new issue of The Point. It's about dentist grandmothers, torture, prison and the odd places memory comes to rest in the body (with plenty on Eastern Europe, of course). Read here: thepointmag.com/examined-lif…

If you are in Berlin tomorrow, I’m giving a keynote lecture at the Pilecki Institute as part of their Exercising Modernity program. I’ll be speaking about orphan memory - the heritage landscapes left behind by Eastern Europe’s tumultuous 20th century. September 19, at 18:30.

You can hear me on the radio this weekend talking with the great Rick Steves about Eastern European folklore and my favorite spots in the Balkans - link below…

Had a terrific time talking with the folks at TalkEasternEurope - check out our conversation here:

Very excited to say that today is the release date of the U.S. paperback edition of Goodbye, Eastern Europe. I love this colorful new cover from @PantheonBooks. Available now wherever books are sold!

For @chronicle, I wrote about the promise and the perils of studying the deep past: chronicle.com/article/what-w…